The many U-turns on the road to England's third lockdown

November lockdown decision has been followed by a series of flip-flops and 11th-hour announcements

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The government's coronavirus strategy for England has changed a number of times since the start of the November lockdown, as infections soared and a new variant of the virus emerged.

14 October 2020: Johnson dismisses calls from the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, for a circuit-breaker" lockdown, telling MPs: Opportunism is the name of the game for the party opposite."